Re: Stopping X?

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

Rick -

Not sure if you can get inttab to be reread without a reboot but if so, you
could change the respawn to once in the runlevel 5 line.

Now for the possible.  If the processes are not dependent on X then I would
think that you could remove the K*files that would kill the sevices you are
interested in  from /etc/rc.d/rc3.d.  I believe that these files are the one
to kill a process when entering a runlevel and the S* would start them.  In
fact you can probably mv /etc/rc.d/rc.3 /etc/rc.d/rc3.d.real and do an init 3
and all the same things will be running that were there in rl 5.

This is all controlled by the rc script in /etc/rc.d.  At least that is what
it looks like to me.

Test it first on a non production box.

Be interesting to see what the gurus have to say.

Bret

Rick Shank wrote:

> How can I safely stop X and gdm while I'm in run level 5, without doing an
> init to level 3.  How is this possible w/o losing my running processes
> (this is a production server).
>
> Thanks,
> ~Rick Shank
>
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